Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Lost Identity

(part 1)

By Joy W.

Every
man or human being has an identity. Our identities can be characterized
to our origin thus where we come from, our race, the tribe family or
clan. Aside that we also have identities that is our names based on our
religion and down to the days we were born. In these regard people are
identified to be Africans or Americans, a Brazilian or a Scottish, a British or French, a Christian or a Muslim then a Monday born or a Tuesday born.

We also have identity by organization where our various careers tell who we are, institution and what have you.

We
can lose our identity as persons or group. As Christians we have an
identity because of Christ. People must know Christ to know us because
we are identified through him and that’s how we get our name CHRISTIANS,
followers of CHRIST. Our identities describes us and tells people who
we really are. Christianity is not a religion of the mass, it is our
walk in life with God. Because for us to live is Christ and to die is
gain.

In
Genesis the bible describes a beautiful harmonious relationship of man
and God, the creature and the creator as one body in one peaceful and
wonderful world. The other creature respected this relationship and
located their various places. Man was just like God because he was
created in the image and likeness of the creator himself. And so he was a
God given power to rule over everything that was created. To name them accordingly.

When
we fail to appreciate and accept who we are, we would be deceived and
swayed to accept just anything with the intention of making us better
but in actually sense change our identity. When our identity changes our
destiny changes. Our identity makes us and tells who
we are, it is an embodiment of our being, the moment we change it we
change our destiny and we direct our lives on a different course. A king
who has lost his kingship to become a slave can definitely not have the
same destiny, unless he takes back his rightful position again. The bible says that we were created in the image and likeness of God
(Genesis 1:27) but we can lose this. Yes we have been made priest and
priestesses (1 Peter 2:9) but we can lose it. The moment we sway from
the sight of God we lose our identity.

He
is the vine and we are the branches, when we detach ourselves from the
vine we will die. When a tree branch breaks from the tree it dies
because it has lost its root that powers its life. When we lose our identity we lose all its benefits and privileges associated with it.

When the prodigal (Luke 14:11 ….)son
in the bible lost his identity, he lost all that there is to his name
but when he realized he could be better of even as a slave at the place
he once abandoned he was restored.

The bible says that there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth (Luke 14:10).
With Christ there is nothing like too late because a day is a thousand
years in his sight and a thousand a day. He picks the rotten and
restores it as the most valuable thing you can ever imagine. The stone
the builders rejected became the cornerstone (Psalm 118:22).